Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Seminars in Early Modern Preaching: Uses of Secular Language

3 November 2007Graduate School in Arts & Humanities, Old Whiteknights House, University of Reading

09.30-10.00 Registration and Welcome10.00-11.20 Panel 1: Trade and Commerce Chair: TBA Pascal's Wager and Bunyan's Bargain Dr Roger Pooley (University of Keele) Prayers for Purses: Sermons and the Rhetorics of Compensation in Early-Modern English Colonial Discourse Dr Francisco J. Borge (University of Oviedo, Spain)11.20-11.45 Coffee/Tea11.45-13.00 Panel 2: Music and Satire Chair: TBA Lancelot Andrewes's Use of Music Theory in Preaching Dr Peter McCullough (University of Oxford) Sermons and Satire at Paul's Cross Dr Roze Hentschell (Colorado State University, US)13.00-14.00 Lunch14.00-15.20 Panel 3: Natural Philosophy and Medicine Chair: TBA Light, the Œchurlysshe beest‚, and the Court of Heaven Ms Cecilia Hatt (University of Oxford) The Interplay of Medicine and Preaching: Matthew Griffith's The Catholike Doctor and his Spiritual Catholicon to Cure Our Sinfull Soules (1661) Dr Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)15.20-15.45 Coffee/Tea15.45-17.00 Session 4: Language of War Chair: TBA William Bridge's Sermons and the Case for Resistance during the English Civil Wars Professor Jackie Eales (Canterbury Christ Church University) Heaven is inherited by the violent: The Presentation of the Military in Early Modern Sermons Dr David J. Appleby (University of Nottingham)

There will not be a formal conference dinner, but we will book a table at a moderately priced restaurant in town (close to the train station) for anyone who would like to have an informal meal afterwards. If you would like to come along, please let Dr Mary Morrissey know, so that we will have some idea of numbers. For details of registration and further information, please email Dr Mary Morrissey (m.e.morrissey@reading.ac.uk) or Dr Hugh Adlington (hugh@adlingtonc.freeserve.co.uk).